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At any time, your photo may be taken ROBERT LEBZELTER column for June 28, 2009 You can then just pick and choose what photos you want printed. If you don’t want to print them, buy a digital photo frame, put all of your photos on it and enjoy them all. This isn’t a period in history in which to be camera shy. Every cell phone today has a camera and today’s smart phones offer fairly decent quality. Many even offer video. Some consumer cameras are so small, people take them anywhere they go. So your chances of being caught on camera with a mouthful of food or your finger up your nose are much greater today. Well, unless you don’t eat and don’t put your finger up your nose. Who doesn’t do those things? Just when you think you are safe, Google comes down your street, taking photographs for its Google Maps feature. Smile when they do! But take heart, many of these photographs don’t survive or reside on a tiny speck of a memory card for years to come, with nobody ever seeing them. Even a decade ago, professional photographers were shooting in digital. When Bill Clinton was president, there was a White House event. In line to greet the president was Monica Lewinsky, whom we learned later had a bit of a relationship with the prez. Except nobody knew that at the time. When it was her turn in line, Bill gave Monica a hug. It was probably a joke between them. After the scandal broke, a photograph of that hug was widely distributed. But here is the inside story: Most photographers shot digitally even then. Photographers chose the photos from the event they wanted to give to their editors. The Lewinsky photos weren’t used. They weren’t anything special and nobody knew who she was. So after the pictures were sent to the editors, the rest of the photos, including hugging Monica, were wiped clean. It was one photographer still using film who went back in his files and pulled out the Monica photo that everyone used. So take heart, just because you get your photo taken doesn’t mean it will end up anywhere. It may be reformatted to make room for more photos that won’t be seen anywhere. 
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